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1:30 AM
@lisardggY Once your kid is about six months or so, gaming with your partner becomes relatively easy.
I my experience.
 
 
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4:28 AM
Hi
 
4:39 AM
@AlexP The kid is actually extremely considerate and manageable, asleep by 9pm, sleeping till the morning. And if our regular group (that both me and my wife play in) wasn't fractured, we would probably be hosting regular evening sessions at our place. Other factors conspire, though...
 
@lisardggY Time for twosies, clearly. :)
 
Neither of us is very keen on GMing, though. We'll try to fish around for a group to join.
 
 
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7:11 AM
@lisardggY Have you looked into GMless options?
 
8:01 AM
I don't know if that's what we're after. I really miss the social aspect of playing with friends, even more than the actual gameplay itself.
 
8:22 AM
@lisardggY I feel you man,.
My friends are just starting to start moving into the zone of family, and too many job responsibilities. I know you are older than me, so you must have had this for a while aleady.
 
8:45 AM
Actually, I'm the first in this circle of friends to get married and have kids.
 
I am Hungry!
 
@lisardggY And now its happening to the others?
 
@InbarRose Nah, just some personal feuds between people that ended up dissolving the party.
Luckily, not in mid-campaign.
 
Luckily indeed, but I am sure nonetheless upsetting.
 
9:26 AM
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Q: Storytelling with lie detection

AndrásMost of the fantasy systems I know has a spell to detect lies, speak with the dead, and the like. Imagine how long great movies like The Usual Suspects or In the Heat of the Night would have lasted if the detectives had access to Detect Lies or Analyze Truth. How can you deal with this problem...

And as always, we return to the basic conflict that magic, especially D&D style magic, can seriously break your game and setting if applied rigorously.
 
Magic is great in theory and when used in a grandiose way - but when it boils down, magic is totally non practical.
The simplest assertion, (in this case in a world with magic on the D&D scale) creating water/food is such a simple cantrip that there should be no more poverty/starvation/lowerclass/farmers anywhere anymore.. the entire world would be a very different place if the actual practical application of magic was to be realized instead of just theorized.
 
Ars Magica attempts to set boundaries on what can be done on a daily basis, so creating food/drink that has a real effect is ruled out, but questions like the one above are a problem.
 
I recall reading a guide where you have your players help you create the world they're playing in. Anyone know of it?
 
@InbarRose Unless, of course, magic is designed to fit into that. Settings like Weis & Hickman's Dark Sword make magic an everyday thing, but tie it into the existing social structure, so people with earth-magic are always the farmers.
Classic sword and sorcery stories would break down if you tried to step back from the plot and see how the rest of the world works.
And that's fine, if you're writing a story, not a world.
 
10:03 AM
@William'MindWorX'Mariager Well, I am sure a lot of games have a similar feature, but Fate has that. Game Creation in Fate
@lisardggY Yes, Reminds me of the Demon Wars Saga.
One of the few stories where magic really felt a part of the world AND the story in a really believable and cool way.
The DemonWars Saga is a series of seven novels written by R.A. Salvatore. The series is set in the world of Corona, principally in the kingdoms of Honce-the-Bear and Behren, and amongst the nomadic To-gai-ru. The Saga is separated into two trilogies bridged by a single book, Mortalis. The saga has an accompanying roleplaying game, entitled Demon Wars. The First Trilogy The Demon Awakens The first book in the trilogy introduces the reader to Elbryan Wyndon and Jilseponie Ault, two young friends whose lives are irrevocably changed by the destruction of their village of Dundalis, and Avel...
 
@William'MindWorX'Mariager Also, you can read up on Microscope, which is a standalone world-creation game that is also used to create a shared world.
 
Hahahaha, Eric Lippert shows up again and makes an English Language question into a logic hell. english.stackexchange.com/a/154270
 
@Zachiel He's everywhere!
 
@Zachiel That is hilarious. "Seems Legit"
 
10:37 AM
@Phil I've been reading backlogs. The main reason why 4e fails at PvP is that the non-strikers die fast to strikers. Since your group is supposed to have different roles in it (or it works badly in PvE), the guy who plays the striker is almost guaranteed to win PvP every time he wants. He can basically be "do what I say or I'm gonna kill you, you know I can do it" (except if this striker ever sleeps, which some races don't).
 
@lisardggY Well, the thing I'm talking about was just a small mini-game that was system agnostic. Each player took turns creating things, like adding cities, forests, mountains, etc.
 
10:56 AM
Oooh, I know that. I'll have to find it later, though.
 
You're an eternal source of information BESW.
 
11:22 AM
@William'MindWorX'Mariager Dawn of Worlds (pdf link).
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You're awesome @BESW!
 
[bow and a flourish]
I've actually played that once, with friends via email and a digital map I kept updated.
It fell apart before we "concluded," but it was kinda fun. Very different from Microscope.
 
I remember liking the idea, it's a nice way for my players to know the world right away.
Like dominant races, what's where and why.
 
It didn't have the right mixture of rules and freedom in the right places for my group to really get into it, I think.
But the concept is great.
 
I have to stop leaving this logged in overnight...
 
11:27 AM
Also, nice job on describing it; I was wracking my brains and coming up with nothing that hadn't already been suggested, until you mentioned the "adding cities, forests, mountains" bit.
(Dawn of Worlds slips through the cracks in my brain for some reason.)
 
I have 10k rep in SciFi now, and can see dead answers, and it's made the entire experience of browsing the site different. A bit unreal. I can see what lurks in the shadows, and so on.
@BESW Didja see that the guy from (my) yesterday did end up breaking his Silmarillion question into chunks.
 
@BESW For me it just morphs into Dawn of Souls, which are the ridiculous bonus dungeons for Final Fantasy 1.
 
@lisardggY Heh. I saw that he pared the first post down, yes.
Then I left for work.
 
@BESW Now he added the second question too, as standalone.
 
11:33 AM
Tomorrow will be even longer; work, then a youth reflection meeting. Which I'm happy about, but... I'm gonna be in town from 0700 to 2230.
 
@lisardggY Dead Answers?
Like deletede things?
 
@William'MindWorX'Mariager At 10k rep, you can see answers that have been deleted. They're greyed out, but still visible.
 
And it's like a graveyard of discarded answers. Most really terrible.
 
11:36 AM
I'm 1.9k away from it on sf.se.
Now, the rpg.se dead answers are often face/palmingly hilarious.
 
Ever since I got that on SO... it has been a terrible time :P
 
@BESW Very good. I'm not as deeply enmeshed as she is, of course, but I certainly recognize elements of that ennui in me too.
 
One reason I liked Dragon Bones despite it being set firmly in Fantasyland was that its protagonist defied a lot of tropes while still being them, and also that while in the end its dragons were quite traditionally boring, the journey toward that end was very non-traditional.
(In terms of the dragons; the story itself was almost self-consciously standard traditional. It's a weird little book.)
I think I was weary of Fantasyland before I even knew it was a thing, because I went straight from Lord of the Rings to "We're so tired of Lord of the Rings knockoffs we're going to parody them."
So I never really got the chance to enjoy Fantasyland unblemished by criticism.
[yawn] I've got maybe half an hour of sense-making left in me. Anyone need some of that?
 
Sense is overrated.
 
12:33 PM
@BESW I didn't get even like 90% of the references in that blog.
Just name dropping.
 
1:06 PM
I just discovered something.
 
Discovery!
 
Morning
 
Hi!
@BESW My mind is whirring through what I should run my players through in Dungeons of Fate.
 
 
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2:40 PM
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Q: Let's make [game-recommendations] actually be for recommendations of games

Jonathan HobbsWe should split game-recommendations up and make it just be for actual recommendations of games. This has come up before, but hear me out, because we only need to create one extra tag to offload all the other stuff in it that isn't recommendations of games, and we're using the tag weirdly to avoi...

 
Nice.
 
@InbarRose Thanks. :)
 
I'd much rather murder the tag altogether
 
I don't think recommendations are a good fit for the site either.
 
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A: Has [system-recommendation] grown too big for its britches?

wax eaglesystem-recommendation is a meta tag and should be abolished. That said, since it's not going anywhere for the moment, the answer to fixing it is not adding more meta tags. The actual answer is not tagging these questions with any kind of identifier about the type of question that it is. Instead...

 
2:54 PM
I don't know if there can be questions asking to recommend a game that will be useful for future visitors.
 
@InbarRose they're actually OK here a lot of the time
the problem isn't the question type (though they have problems), it's more the tag itself
we've seen SR.SE do all right actually by following the guidelines that we and other sites who allow recs have formed over time. Define your requirements such that there are ways to judge an answer objectively
 
@waxeagle I don't mind the presence of the tag personally. It seems people want it to stay, and I'm OK with that, since the questions generally work well enough.
But I want our tags to be used well and not have this one weird tag. :P
 
yeah I think the single tag experiment is a failure..but I'm probably the last person to chime in on that considering my hatred of the tag in general :)
 
3:37 PM
gah...I wish I had the money for this: kickstarter.com/projects/823962857/…
but I can't justify $300 on a handful of minis...even if they are SoIaF
 
3:51 PM
Oooh, Arianne Martell...
 
@ProfessorCaprion aye. The list for the KS isn't all that impressive, but getting the Martin Masterworks in bulk is a nice deal
Though the model for the Khal looks amazing
The current line of masterworks is here, I've drooled over them a couple of times already: darkswordminiatures.com/shop/index.php/miniatures/…
(some of those, especially some of the paint jobs on Cersi/Melesandre/Daenarys) are NSFWish
 
Is it possible to enchant a stone slab to levitate up and down on command in pathfinder?
I mean are there any official rules for it?
 
@waxeagle Those are some classy wildlings.
 
they look amazing. All of the sculpts are very well done
 
@Aaron Like an automatic door?
 
4:00 PM
@InbarRose Elevator
 
Levitate?
Telekinesis?
Floating Disk?
 
@BESW How did you handle monsters? I'm planning on using it to get my players involved in world creation.
The guide talks about races and such. I assume that's mainly for large civilizations. Tribes like goblins, orcs and whatever other monsters would still appear.
But if a player were to say, here's an Orc city, they'll become a civilization rather than just a random encounter.
 
4:16 PM
Lackeys wait on you hand and foot and take care of common domestic and traveling issues; their ranks include butlers, valets, maids, heralds, footmen, ladies-in-waiting, and similar service personnel. Skilled Lackeys anticipate your needs and coordinate with your other employees as well as those of your guests or host. a typical Lackey is a 1st-level commoner or expert.
What is a lady in waiting?
 
@Aaron A lady's maid. A personal servant or assistant to a high-born lady.
 
A lady-in-waiting is a female personal assistant at a court, royal or feudal, attending on a queen, a princess, or a high-ranking noblewoman. Historically, in Europe a lady-in-waiting was often a noblewoman from a family highly thought of in good society, but was of lower rank than the woman whom she attended. Although she may or may not have received compensation for the service she rendered, she was considered more of a companion than a servant to her mistress. Lady-in-waiting is often a generic term for women whose relative rank, title and official functions varied, although such dis...
 
@lisardggY Ah. I really didn't want to google lady in waiting cause I wasn't sure. Thanks!
 
@Aaron Also, the potential for NSFW images for any query involving anything feminine is quite high. :)
 
@lisardggY Hence my reluctance to google such things while at work :)
 
4:22 PM
The classic image you're probably familiar with is the Hen from Disney's Robin Hood
 
4:57 PM
This gives rules for retraining but are there any official rules or highly accepted rules for spending downtime to outright train in things?
 
 
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7:46 PM
Does anyone have the D&Dnext packet from october?
I have the september one from last year which I thought was the last one but apprently I missed a final version
 
I think I have... April?
 
nah
there was an august
then sepetember
from last leary
and apparently there was an october 15th final packet I missed
 
@William'MindWorX'Mariager "Races and civilizations are often interchangeable."
To my mind, that means you can use Create Race to say "here's an elven empire" or "orcs run wild in this area."
Encounter-level detail isn't something Dawn of Worlds does; it's a big-strokes game.
 
8:02 PM
I wish there was a way to PM someone vs. chat
@Ben-Jamin Im trying to answer your question but I apparently dont have the most uptodate rules (sept 2013 vs. oct 2013 rule packet)
 
@JonathanHobbs I will see your manly Mane Six and raise you the Manliest Brony in the World.
 

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